Genesis 2:2

And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

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In The King James Version

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

In Context

1Thus were finished the heavens and the earth, and all their host.

3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because thereon he had rested from all his work which God had created in making it.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:8Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.

Exodus 23:12Six days shalt thou do thy work, and on the seventh day shalt thou rest; that thy ox and thy ass may repose, and the son of thy hand-maid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

Deuteronomy 5:14But the seventh day is the sabbath in honor of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: in order that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:2-4

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. We have here, I. The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation, v. 1, 2 . Here observe, 1. The creatures made… Read the whole commentary →

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